The Civil War Letters Prince George, Bermuda Hundred, Virginia September 24, 1864

Headquarters Co E. 11th Pa Cavalry
Prince George Courthouse
September 24th 1864

My Dear Wife

I write today because i have got my tent fly over my head and it is raining and i feel rather lonesome  so i write a few lines for passtime though i have no news to send.  i am still at my old job on Picket  if they Keep us on much longer we will get use to it and wont want to be relieved.

in one of your letters you said that you had sent me some papers but as yet i have received none.  newspapers are never sure to come through for mail carriers and army Post Office clerks make a practice of opening them and Keeping them for there own reading  letters come through all safe but with newspapers it is doubtful.

i had a letter from Mrs. Groff this morning inquiring about her husbands affects and pay and Bounty  i will write to her some day soon.  i see by the Philadelphia inquirer that Corp R J Spense died at Petersburg on July 24 of the wounds received at reams station  i will have to have his papers made out so that his father can draw his back Pay & Bounty  there is not many of the old members of Co E. left now  they are manly all Killed died or gone home  nearly all the men i have now are men that was recruited last winter.  the company that left Hestonville 3 years ago is no more

Dear Wife  i have no news to add but i hope this will find you Lizzie and all the family injoying the Very Best of health as it leaves me at present

i close with My Best Love to you My Dear Wife

i am as Ever your Affectionate Husband
William Lancaster

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